%0 Journal Article %T Virtual Instrumentation in Biomedical Equipment %A Tiago Faustino Andrade %A Manuel Rodrigues Quintas %A Carlos Moreira Silva %A Maria Teresa Restivo %J International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE) %D 2013 %I Kassel University Press %R 10.3991/ijoe.v9is1.2283 %X Nowadays, the assessment of body composition by estimating the percentage of body fat has a great impact in many fields such as nutrition, health, sports, chronic diseases and others. The main purpose for this work is the development of a virtual instrument that permits more effective assessment of body fat, automatic data processing, recording results and storage in a database, with high potential to conduct new studies, http://lipotool.com. %K virtual instrument %K wireless communication %K biomedical equipment %K medical diagnosis. %U http://www.online-journals.org/index.php/i-joe/article/view/2283